The other day my partner and I were sitting on our garden bench drinking our coffee when his phone beeped. It was a message from one of his friends.
Both he and his friend are volunteer firemen. Here in France, a mix of organizations provide emergency services all under public health control.
I asked him if any of his colleagues or surrounding departments have been called out for any CV (C Virus) cases. He said no, not that he knew of. In fact, he said that none of his colleagues had been called out.
‘For anything?’ I asked.
He replied, ‘no.’
This made me curious because pre CV whenever he was on call, there would be a call out. A case of a fallen tree, a person, falling in their home or at work, the occasional fire. All of which he would be used as ‘service a la personne.’
His role was to look after the individuals. And in most cases other than the ones I’ve explained previously. These were for respiratory issues.
Now here’s the odd thing.
Due to the CV, a lot of people are trying to avoid hospitals like the plague. I get it. Yet pre CV, as I mentioned above, he and his colleagues were called out regularly.
So what’s happened to the respiratory patients? There have been no emergency calls for either him nor his colleagues. Zero calls!
Which is great, of course.
Have the conditions of all the previous respiratory patients pre CV all of a sudden ‘disparu’?
I sincerely hope so for their sake.
Yet allow me to throw in a couple of case studies, and please consider the thought that most of us are at home now in quarantine.
There was an article in The Connexions magazine ‘French news and views’ that stated;
‘Accidents of daily life’ like falling downstairs kill 18,500 people a year, official figures show.’
A study showed that domestic accidents cause 11,500 deaths a year in France alone.
In Blighty (United Kingdom), an article in the Guardian dated 2014. Claimed homes and leisure pursuits now cause far more injuries and deaths – 1,000 per month, than car crashes and industrial accidents.
Of the 22 million people a year who attend A&E, about 7 million do so as a result of an accident. According to Mann, the president of the College of Emergency Medicine.
OK, now that’s enough of the doom and gloom, let’s move onto -
‘How France could quite possibly be thinking itself healthy.’
Well, do you recall when I said … 'Have the conditions of all the previous respiratory patients pre CV all of a sudden ‘disparu?’
Like I say, I hope so. Yet the question stuck in my mind; ‘Are people thinking themselves healthy?’
It reminds me of the work by Dr. Joe Dispenza on the placebo effect.
Open stage door left…
You may have already heard of his work, but if not, then here’s a short brief of his findings.
In his book ‘You are the Placebo’ he suggests that you can heal yourself by thought alone without drugs or surgery. His book shares countless cases documented by his studies, where patients with all kinds of illness have ‘thought’ themselves healthy.
He explores the history of the Placebo effect and shares scientific evidence showing the patient’s brain scans during the healing process. He covers not only the science behind his studies but also delves into hypnosis behaviors, and demystifies how the impossible can, in fact, become possible.
Is this quarantine having a ‘twilight effect’ on my mind?
Could the lines of communication be down, and hence the reason why my boyfriend’s fire department is not receiving any calls?
Could the individuals of France have moved into ground floor apartments of bungalows during the quarantine to remove the chance of falling downstairs?
That’s it!
I’ve now realized where all the toilet roll is going. People are wrapping themselves up like mummies to prevent injuries in the home. Well, OK, maybe that’s just me.
Or, could it be that people are, in fact, thinking themselves healthy?